Capt_Drakes

Thougt I would share with you what was in my first email this morning. You should always start your day with a good laugh.


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For all the scientists out there and for all the students who have a hard time
convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible....here's something
that shows God's awesome creation and shows that He is still in control.
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Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called
"myth" in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, president of the Curtis Engine
Company in Baltimore, Maryland and a consultant in the space program, relates
the following development. "I think one of the most amazing
things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space
scientists at GreenBelt, Maryland.
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They were checking the position of the sun,moon,and planets out in space where
they would be 100 years and 1000 years from now. We have to know this so we
won't send a satellite, up and have it bump into something later on in its
orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the
satellite, and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down.
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They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came
to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there
was something wrong either with the information fed into it or with the results
as compared to the standards. They called in the service out and they said,
"What's wrong?"
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Well, they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time. They
scratched their heads and tore their hair. There was no answer. Finally, a
Christian man on the team said, "You know, one time I was in Sunday School and
they talked about the sun standing still." While they didn't believe him, they
didn't have an answer either, so they said, "Show us."
He got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty
ridiculous statement for any one with "common sense." There they found the Lord
saying to Joshua, "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there
shall not a man of them stand before thee." Joshua was concerned because he was
surrounded by the enemy and if darkness fell they would overpower them. So
Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still!

That's right-"The sun stood still and the moon stayed-and hasted not to go down
about a whole day!" (Joshua 10:12-13)

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The astronauts and scientists said, "There is the missing day!" They checked the
computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not
close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23
hours and 20 minutes-not a whole day. They read the
Bible and there it was "about (approximately) a day" These little words in the
Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot
account for 40 minutes you'll still be in trouble 1,000 years from now.
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Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in
orbits. As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in
the Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS. The scientists told him he was
out of his mind, but they got out the Book and read these
words in 2 Kings that told of the following story: Hezekiah, on his deathbed,
was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die.
Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said "Do you want the sun to go ahead
10 degrees?" Hezekiah said "It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees,
but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees."
Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees BACKWARD!
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Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua,
plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!" Isn't it
amazing? References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11.
Forward this to as many people who you believe would think this is equally as
cool. Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

Mageth

Snopes debunking of that particular myth.

Capt_Drakes

Oh Mageth. You destroyed my little seed of faith that was starting to grow.

Rational BAC

Did anyone besides me notice that Harold Hill was also the same name as the fraudulent musical instrument salesman in "The Music Man"?

Interesting coincidence anyway.

And a great movie.

Bill

These legends just seem to recycle, again and again and again. Here are some other links:

• Farrell Till's rebuttal
• And more Farrell Till rebuttal
• James Still reviews the story in memetic terms

Notwithstanding that this urban legend has been debunked a gazillion times, it continues to circulate, because the true believers just prefer their own soft myths to the hard edge of truth.

== Bill

Godless Wonder

Yeah, I hate it when my program gets a red signal. I guess they forgot to add this to their program:

signal(SIGRED, SIG_IGN);

(sorry, couldn't resist.)

Steven Carr

I think Microsoft send green signals to programs when Windows is ready to allow them to process.

An amber signal from Windows means 'prepare to stop'

A red signal means 'stop'. If programs ignore the red signal, they crash into other programs and then have to exchange insurance details, and collect witnesses.

Luckily my programs are fitted with air-bags to reduce the damage caused by going thru a red signal.

Actually, the missing day turned out to be July 24th 2002. Boy, was I zonked on the 23rd. Little wonder I have no memory of the next day....

Heathen Dawn

Isn't it funny how the pyramids are aligned exactly as if the Missing Day had never happened? And, more importantly: how we have no witness of the Missing Day except the Bible? I mean, the whole world should have been witness to the Missing Day. It's my favorite case of a report that means a population on the scale of nations witnessed something, but it never happened. It's quite a short-circuit to religious eyewitness claims, such as the Sinai Argument (Judaism) and the Resurrection Argument (Christianity).

JP2

Never mind the fact that Joshua never existed or the fact that the Isrealites never went up the west bank conquering cities....

Derec

Actually you are more correct then you might think. The signals are called "semaphores" and are actually visualized as little traffic lights here:
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/NSF-3/e...SUAL-sema.html


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